Buntonia

Buntonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BuntoniinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 89 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 89 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 89 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 89 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 89 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 89 occurrencesMiocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 11 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 6 occurrences59–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya15.98 Mya115 Mya10 Mya

89 occurrences of Buntonia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

89 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Ameki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°EAmeki — 5.58°N, 7.58°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°ECalcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°WYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WOued Izem — 33.10°N, 5.30°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°ECapay — 39.21°N, 121.87°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WLizard Springs — 10.13°N, 61.38°WAlazán — 20.93°N, 97.60°WBateque — 27.02°N, 112.91°WPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.56°W

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The named rock units Buntonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buntonia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Buntonia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

444 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Buntonia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

20 references

Each of the 89 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 8 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Buntonia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buntonia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBuntoniinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howe 1935